Your are a damn liar.
TS
"The Dead Senator" wrote in message
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> Opus- wrote:
>>>/rant_on
>>>
>>>The tyranny of Walmart has no altruistic reason for you to camp on their
>>>lot. They allow you to camp in their concrete campground for one reason
>>>and one reason only:
>>
>>
>> Tyranny????
>
> Yes, tyranny. Economic tyranny.
>
>>
>>
>>>So they can sell you cheap (Chinese) crap and lots of junk food. They
>>>simply want your money. That is all.
>>
>>
>> You say that like it's a bad thing. They aren't forcing anybody to
>> walk in their doors. Walmart's motives were never a secret.
>
> It is a bad thing. They aren't forcing you, but they also aren't telling
> you the truth. People need to wake up. Wally alone has over $18 billion
> in direct Chinese inventory. Many of the other products purchased from
> "American" companies are from China, too. These are not counted in that
> inventory. 70-80% of the goods within it's walls are Chinese. Check next
> time you're there (I hope never). If they had $250 billion in sales last
> year, that means ~$185 billion went to China. Wow. They are funneling the
> Wally-shopping American paychecks straight to China. This is not good.
>
>>
>>>Do not lionize Wally as they are not deserving of your praise.
>>
>>
>> I saw no praise in the above post.
>
> It sounded like indirect praise to me. I wanted to be sure folks
> understand why Wallyworld lets campers camp out front. It isn't just to
> be nice to RVers.
>
>>
>>>Yes, I hate Walmart. I could go on, but...
>>
>>
>> Why hate Walmart? Their actions, with regards to making a profit,
>> sound pretty American to me. Nothing wrong with that.
>
> Okay, you asked...
>
> Profit is one thing, all out greed is another. Remember when Sam bragged
> about selling American products? They've come a long way from that. They
> are now funding the Chinese worker and their companies/government instead
> of our own. Do I sound like a Protectionist? Yes. For good reason.
> Walmart is our leading exporter of American money and jobs. Does Walmart
> care about America? Only so far as Americans spend money there.
>
> Here's more food for thought:
> Walmart (which also runs Sam's Club) has long been known to move into an
> area, soak up the money with cheap prices till the Mom-n-Pop stores have
> to shut down, then when Mom-n-Pop (and family) move to better pastures,
> the Walmart revenue dries up. Wally then pulls up stakes and goes
> elsewhere. Community destroyed. This is why there is a non-prfit group
> that follows Walmart around the country helping communities to try and
> stop the contruction of new stores. Thankfully, sometimes they are
> succesful.
> Walmart's suppliers are forced to drop prices further and further to
> support the Happy Face's pricing model of lower and lower prices. This
> causes the supplier to make cutbacks such as laying off workers in the
> supply chain, cutting wages and outsourcing jobs to factories in other
> countries and furthering unemployment in the area of the suppliers. If
> suppliers don't comply, they're cut off and will probably wither and die
> since the bulk of their sales go to Wally. It has happened (Vlasic, Apex,
> etc).
> The workers that get the privilege to work for Wally get lower wages and
> benefits that also lower the local areas standards of employment. Workers
> at other stores/companies get lower wages, benefits and raises as a
> result. I haven't even mentioned the abuses and wrongs levied on many of
> the workers. Wally always sidesteps the legal issues or pays out while
> admitting no wrong-doing (a tactic by all too many companies these days).
> There is plenty more. Do a Google search and you'll see it for yourself.
> Walmart is not the only company that employs these practices, they just
> the largest abuser and the best at it. We have to start somewhere.
>
> Instead, shop locally if at all possible. Think of the community and what
> makes it unique. I enjoy buying from unique stores in different areas of
> the country. Walmart (and others) make everything this milktoast sameness
> that inspires nothing. Support Mom-n-Pop. Local produce. Local dairies.
> Local hardware stores. Try not to buy it if it's made in China (I
> understand the difficulty here and yes, I own Chinese products, too). You
> may pay more, but there is much solace in knowing that the money is
> staying local and not lining some company or government's pocket in China.
> I don't hate China, but I do love my country. Let's start fixing some of
> what ails us.
>
> Sorry for the long post. Best regards.
>
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